PUBLICATIONS
2024    ‘égo/égal Nika Schmitt’, publication, collection of written text and             works, published by Liar (Luxembourg Institute for Artistic Research NYC),

        New York (US)
2024    ‘Sounds of Bethany’, 50 years Künstlerhaus Bethanien, exhibition                 publication, published by Christoph Tannert, Berlin (DE)
2023     ‘Thirties 2023’, exhibition catalog, 2023, published by Kunsthalle Trier                  (DE)
2022 ‘nothingness’ publication/booklet, Territorio Especifico, Montevideo (UY),

           by Fernando Godoy and Nika Schmitt, published by HB publishing (NL)
2020    ‘Otomax, ways to prepare pets for war$, music EP: release, 2020, published by Otomax
2020    #Les sonic explorers à Dakar 2020, articles and drawings by Ismaël Adramé  Coly, Martin Tornow, Anna Karima Wane and Nika Schmitt, self-published
2020    #sonotopia wettbewerb/competition 2015-2019 European student competition for sound installation art’, bonn hoeren, catalogue/book:by Carsten  Seiffarth

COLLABORATIONS AND OTHER ACTIVTIES
2024      Panel member at  ‘Art Talk’: Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg and                         ISCP New York, Art Week, Luxembourg (LU)
2020-2024   yearly participation at fashionclash festival Maastricht with artist                            collective ‘DOMINIK’, Maastricht (NL)
Since 2017   member of the artist clothing collective ‘DOMINIK’ based in  

                     Maastricht (NL) and Amsterdam (NL)
Since 2016    member of the artist and music collective ‘OTOMAX’



PRIZES AND NOMINATIONS
2024 Luxembourg Art Prize 2024, certificate of artistic merit,

           Luxembourg (LU)
2022 Edward Steichen Award 2022, four month residency, International

            Studio Curatorial Program NY, winner, Luxembourg (LU) and New York

            (US)
2021     Artscience Master prize, Artscience interfaculty, winner, The Hague

            (NL)
2018 Sonotopia 2018, student competition for sound installation, bonn/

            hoeren, winner, Bonn (DE)
2017 Gilbert de Bontridder prijs, winner, Maastricht(NL)
            Carat Lucas Gassel Prijs 2017, nominated, Helmond(NL)
            Henriette Hustinx prijs, nominated, Maastricht(NL)


STATEMENT

Nika Schmitt’s work moves between mechanism and metaphor, exploring how repetition, Energy and material shape both physical environments and human perception. Rooted in a practice of building electro mechanical sculptures that evolve, loop, self-disrupt and sometimes come apart, her installations reflect tensions between precision and collapse, humour and urgency, presence and absence. Through philosophical reflection, hands-on experimentation and a growing commitment to collaboration, Schmitt continues to explore what self-regulating and self-maintaining systems can reveal about the world we inhabit. Her interest in Energy, not just as a technical element but a cultural and symbolic force, reflects a desire to Connect the inner logic of her systems to a larger social and cultural dynamic. Whether working with sound, movement, light, circuitry or silence, her practice remains focused on tracing the delicate and sometimes absurd mechanics that keep running, until they don’t.

Nika Schmitt is an artist based in Rotterdam and Luxembourg. She holds a Master of Music from the ArtScience Interfaculty in the Hague (2021) and BFA from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Maastricht (2017). In 2018, she won first Prize in the Sonic Art Competition Sonotopia (Beethoven Foundation Bonn), followed by a solo exhibition at Fabrik 45. Her installation Echotrope was shown at Philharmonie Luxembourg and the rainy days festival. Other notable projects include Radau Radar (Annexe 22, Luxembourg) and LOOP, her graduation work, which received the ArtScience Master Prize in 2021. During the same year, she took part in the residency Expeditions in Specific Territories, developing works in the port cities of Montevideo and Rostock. In 2022, she received theEdward Steichen Award, which led to a residency in ISCP in New York and the solo show égo/égal at Field Projects. In 2024, she presented Ton Ton, a ceramic robotic arm caught in a feedback loop, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.